Keeping Abreast of the Issues of the Day
This essaylet by Jill Lepore at The New Yorker about this week’s “scandalous” TIME cover gives the history of people losing their minds over the depiction of breasts and breastfeeding and…
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Mother’s Day
“Back when my son was three I took him to Downtown Brooklyn. He pointed to a sign, and said ‘The – King’s – Store.’ I had no idea he could…
Thanks, Boing Boing!
Boing Boing linked to Steve Almond’s must-read piece, “THE WEEK IN GREED #6: To Behave Like the Fallen World.” We love you back!
Memory Excavation
Guernica examines the intersections of science, emotion, and memory by way of an exchange between novelist Rivka Galchen and neuroscience professor David Linden, featured in the Rubin Museum’s Brainwave series. “As…
First Agent
At The Quivering Pen, Emily St. John Mandel remembers her first agent who, even in death, remains part of Mandel’s audience. “She comes back to me at odd moments. When…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Mother’s Day is Sunday, but Norway won’t need a reminder. TECHNOLOGY! Anything can be a touch screen now. On the incredible amounts of “upcycling” copies of National Geographic go through.…
Worst. Water Bed. Ever.
The Animal Kingdom, specifically the marine insect known as the water skater, has devised a new use for the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, using the expanse of pelagic plastics as…
Ye Olde Fart Jokes
Meanwhile in England, a troupe of 24 modern day pilgrims re-enacted Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, walking the 1637 pilgrimage route and raising money for the National Literacy Trust. The group stopped…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
One last memorial: Art Spiegelman on Sendak. “We jump over camels.” Tomorrow in Libertarian u/dystopias: obscenely rich tech giants building their own floating, government-free, start-up island. Meanwhile, Dubai has the…
Same-Sex Marriage Roundup
To almost no one’s surprise, last night North Carolina became the 31st state to ban same-sex marriage. This is the second time North Carolina has done this–the first time was…
Tom Gabel Comes Out as Transgender
Tom Gabel of the band Against Me! opens up about plans to begin living as a woman. Gabel will being transitioning soon and intends to take the name Laura Jane…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Mother’s Day is coming up, maybe you should buy a flying hovercraft. Here are some delightfully morbid 19th century biology book illustrations. This Jewel Caterpillar is pretty neat. Document roadkill,…